2025 marks the 200th anniversary of Norwegian emigration to America. 200 Norwegians is a podcast series exploring the lives of 200 different Norwegians who have shaped the United States—for better or worse-over the two last centuries.
Biweekly historical podcast series produced in collaboration with Vesterheim Museum and with the support of Norway House Foundation.
Episodes
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Episode 1: Cleng Peerson Part 1
The father of Norwegian emigration.
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Episode 2: Cleng Peerson Part 2
A biblical vision that would seal the destiny of his countrymen.
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Episode 3: Cleng Peerson Part 3
The final walk toward the Texas sun.
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Episode 4: Margarethe Cammermeyer
The colonel who took on the U.S. military after being discharged for being a lesbian.
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Episode 5: Andrew Furuseth
The Abraham Lincoln of the sea.
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Episode 6: Belle Gunness
One of America’s most prolific serial killers.
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Episode 7: Knute Rockne
The legendary football coach.
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Episode 8: Odd Lovoll
One of the most influential voices in Norwegian-American history.
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Episode 9: Hans Christian Heg
Civil War Hero.
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Episode 10: Ole Edvart Rølvaag
The most important chronicler of the Norwegian immigrant experience.
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Episode 11: Sonja Henie
One of Norway’s greatest athletes of all time and reinvented herself as a Hollywood star.
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Episode 12: Guri Endreson Rosseland
A Norwegian settler woman caught in the Dakota War of 1862.
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Episode 13: Ole Evinrude
The man who invented the first successful outboard motor.
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Episode 14: Leif Erikson
The first European to reach North America.